Hearn unravelling

Discussion in 'British Boxing Forum' started by u oryt m8, Sep 18, 2025 at 4:04 AM.


  1. chaunceygardina

    chaunceygardina Member Full Member

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    Just made you want to take her out for dinner or a movie. Give her a night off. She probably wouldn't stop looking at her phone though. And that would Hanoi me!
     
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  2. Poop

    Poop War Full Member

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    Got to watch this now after the build up on here.
     
  3. Shootlow

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    Is it just me or did Eddie sound like David Brent early in that interview?
     
  4. chaunceygardina

    chaunceygardina Member Full Member

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    David and Tim/Gareth vibes from Eddie and Frank respectively definitely
     
  5. chaunceygardina

    chaunceygardina Member Full Member

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    Does that make Bazza, Finchy!
     
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  6. Throwback

    Throwback "Somebody wake up Hicks" Full Member

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    He's thrown a kettle over a pub

    What have you ever done?
     
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  7. Makingweight

    Makingweight Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Watched the Netflix series @BXNG101 agree entirely about the woman Emily hard working but no life.

    Frank Smith his knowledge of actual boxing, he would be torn apart on a forum, let alone a good debate, bang average and almost every fight his own fighters or not, the pre fight calls on how they would play out very deluded.
     
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  8. Bob Flaps

    Bob Flaps Boxing Addict Full Member

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    My takeaway from this show was that Matchroom employ some of the worst people on earth that you'd never want to be friends with, ever.

    I've always thought Barry would be good fun over dinner and Eddie good value on a night out, but now that I'm in my 50s, I just can't stand the relentless noise - just stop talking FFS! Emily seems to be another one. For all they go on about "passion," it's just annoying.

    At the end of the day, Matchroom makes its core money hyping minor. sports way beyond their natural value, much like Sid Waddell did with the Indoor League in the 1970s. You can kind of see why Barry fell out with boxing given some of the chancers he'd have come up against, but it feels like Matchroom employs plenty of them. You wonder what the place will be like minus Barry and why Eddie would want to sell up.

    Frank Smith just seems like a tea boy swept along by smarter people - might be completely unfair saying that but in watching the full series I failed to see what he was actually there for. You can see why they still wheel out Eddie for press conferences because Frank's as dull as Ben Shalom.
     
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  9. chaunceygardina

    chaunceygardina Member Full Member

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    Shoes!
     
  10. delboy82

    delboy82 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    We have no idea what was agreed prior.. for all we know it was said that the promo before the presser would be the tribute and Eddie has then used this as a way to get a word in.

    It's not a great optic for eubank but I also wouldn't put it past Eddie to pull that.
     
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  11. delboy82

    delboy82 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Hitler was amazing at his job, what was your point?
     
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  12. delboy82

    delboy82 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    One he signed this when he originally agreed to fight.
    Two he isn't obligated to follow the rehydration limit, he will be given a bonus if he adheres to it is what I'm hearing.
     
  13. u oryt m8

    u oryt m8 New Member Full Member

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    You are obviously not well-read in history if you think that Hitler was "amazing at his job". One of the most absurd claims I have ever read, and delivered amusingly with such pomposity. Hitler's trajectory and the nature of his ascent my have been unlikely and impressive, but long-term his leadership was a catastrophic failure. His war mongering led to the death of tens of millions, his economic policies were totally unsustainable (e.g. generating enormous debts, heavily reliant on imports etc.), and his ideologies also left Germany, on a macro and micro level, in a catastrophic state with regard to reputation for decades.

    What a dumbass.
     
  14. delboy82

    delboy82 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Hitler was a very skilled politician and a fantastic speaker and manipulator.

    I'm gonna guess and say you actually know very little of Hitler before he became famous?
     
  15. boxberry92

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    Hitler was a bit like Tony Bellew in the first round against Makabu. As Dave Coldwell said at the end of the round, after Bellew got knocked down: he got greedy.

    That’s basically Hitler in 1941. He’d already floored France, had Britain on the ropes, and instead of keeping the pressure smartly, he got reckless. By trying to isolate the UK and take on the Soviet Union at the same time, he overreached.

    Had he kept his focus — maybe force Britain into peace before going east — he might have had a much stronger chance of winning the war. But just like Bellew in that round, the greed left him wide open, and eventually he got flattened.

    If only Hitler had Dave Coldwell in his corner.